Reviews

I love Gunsmoke in the years before they were filmed in color the most. I Just watched this one again on ME-TV and loved this one more than many of the others. This episode was from 1964 and was, (in my memory) the last season which starred Burt Reynolds playing the blacksmith. I believe the character of Festus started working in the season after this one. If you watch it... do not miss a minute of it because the spoken dialog is as good as it gets!

I just watched this again on one of the rerun cable stations tonight. It takes me back to my youth because I am 63 now. In 1975 when this movie came out I was a the projectionist at a multi-screen drive in movie theater. I was around 21 years old and had just started to do this job for a living.

The picture did so well that it was held-over for at least 4 weeks! That almost never happened in a drive-inn! I remember we had 4 screens and all the projectors in one room over the snack bar. The starting times of the movies were staggered just right so that I could run them all with no mistakes other than an occasional tear in the film which would automatically shut down the machine.

That picture had nearly every car space filled on the weekends and several other nights as well. So, this lot was the full one while the other screens did dismally worse than that. one. By the time I shipped it out I must have seen the car chase scene a hundred times!

I missed this mini-series when it was originally aired a couple of years ago and now just watched most of it on the History Channel. I can not recommend this program on this cable station at all for the reasons mentioned below.

Sorry to say this but as a four-hour presentation it has what I believe to be nearly 90 minutes of commercials! Not just ads but AWFUL, long station breaks! I do not know who made the mini series or who broadcast it originally a couple of years ago. If it was an original HBO or Showtime production that would partially explain why it was so damn long on the History Channel.

If it was made for premium pay cable then it should have stayed there and not have been cut to pieces by advertisers! I'm 62 years old and I've have already viewed two LIFETIMES of terrible prescription drug and car insurance commercials and resent having my intelligence so rudely insulted by advertisers. I do not need any help whatsoever in deciding what drugs to ask my doctor to prescribe OR who to pay to insure my damn car!

Not to mention the constant self-promotion programming during breaks by The History Channel. I miss being able to record something like this on VCR and then later wear out the machine fast-forwarding the ads.

'Hunter' was a great show, for the first 5 seasons, despite having several cast changes throughout the course of its 7 year run, the chemistry between the two lead characters was perfect. The relationship between Hunter and McCall made you believe that BOTH of them really had the hots for one another! You wanted to see some of the sizzle but (to my knowledge) it never happened either on the show or during their personal lives either. Had it happened it would NOT have been the worst pairing in Hollywood.

Of course, Stepfanie Kramer, a beautiful, sexy cream-puff of a girl, portrays Hunter's partner Dee Dee. The woman was so gorgeous, so soft, so feminine, that it was often comical watching her play a hard-nosed police officer... even when she was shooting at bad guys (and hitting them) you had an irresistible urge to hug and squeeze her. Ms. Kramer evidently tried to counter her natural lovable squishiness by POINTING at things or suspects when she was trying to express real anger or determination. She even pointed fellow officers, pictures in a file folder, etc. After she quit the show in early 1990 Dryer (the star and executive producer) continued right along with at least 3 different female partners whose names or character names are totally forgotten...as were their performances in the show... and those episodes just dragged along for me.

I still watch them on a local cable channel almost 5 evenings a week even though I tune out if it is one of the 20 or so episodes near the end of the series that Stepfanie Kramer was not co-starring in. Dryer just could have never made the show a network hit without Kramer! Her nickname "the brass cupcake" truly fit the talent she brought to the program.

If she had continued working they could have had at least another 5 years on network TV! This was a great show when it first aired in the 80's and it still is a great show in reruns. It says something about a crime drama series when it is still being aired on television 21 years after its original premiere date.

I just saw this one again today on "Me-TV" So I went here to find it because it had a guest star I liked all through my life. I am 60 now and have seen absolutely everything that KEVIN MCCARTHY worked in on the big screen as well as on television. He has made a fine living as an actor in many different shows and movies over a really long period and everyone who sees something he was in always says "Who is that? I've seen him someplace before." Anyway, I've loved H50 since this was originally aired when I was about 15 years old. The new one on CBS is decent but the writing is not nearly as good. However, one thing they do now that they did not do on the original series that I do like is that they feature all the new Chevrolet cars and trucks. I have loved cars as long as H50 and the old Fords and Mercury's in the original show couldn't hold a candle to the Chevrolet's of the 1960's and '70s.

The first time I saw this film I was working as the projectionist of the multi-plex theater where it first opened in 1976. It played for two or more weeks and did good business. I must have checked my watch and looked out at the same few scenes a hundred times. The actors were so talented and the scenery so real as if it was a real 1944 town. I am 60 now and just saw it again on cable. I was about 23 or 4 when it was released. It has been hard for me to understand why Jan Michael Vincent never became a huge box office star like DeNiro or Warren Beaty. I didn't like his TV series "Airwolf" He was so talented but his feature-length movies just were swept under the rug so to speak. I guess some make it while some don't. If you see this playing on cable or in a DVD discount bin watch it un-cut by commercials. Have some tissues nearby.

Just saw it on basic cable network IFC. They ran it without interruption which is so rare these days on any cable station you don't pay extra for. I never saw it in the eighties but I can't believe that none of these actors never became HUGE stars! Wings Hauser's portrayal of a no-nonsense pimp is the second greatest villain performance I have ever seen, right behind the deranged killer in Dirty Harry. I agree with the positive comments by the others folks reviewing this virtually unknown B-Movie. Some of the police work being inept seemed exactly like real undercover cops. An attractive woman has to be nuts to become an undercover vice-cop! I was on the edge of my seat! I've visited these streets and can't help believing that the mid-town L.A.~Hollywood streets are really like this at night

I miss the clothes women wore in the eighties. Hated the hair styles but loved the clothes. The movie is actually a humorous account of how to become a call girl in Hollywood and not starve to death doing it. Faye Dunaway was the best actress in the movie and still worth only 3 stars. The numerous beautiful girls couldn't act their way out of a paper bag but watch them try. One of them ended up on the TV show Becker with Ted Danson in the late 1990's and then I never saw her in anything else. I never heard of this movie when it was first released and wouldn't have seen it now unless it was on television when I wasn't doing anything else. Nevertheless, I liked it and if you see it in your TV listing watch it with a cold beer and some popcorn!

Fox Mulder and Dana Scully are two experienced FBI agents who have chosen to be assigned to numerous unbelievable, unsolved cases within the archives of the FBI since its inception. These cases have all been filed at the bureau under the name or heading X-Files. Within these cases, as the pair of agents will discover, are so many extreme encounters with supernatural and other-worldly creatures and events that you will be sitting on the edge of your chair waiting to see if either one of the leading characters will survive! When it was first aired on the Fox network it was always put up against more established and stronger programming on the 3 other networks and had Fox not allowed it to develop an audience it would have never seen a second season. That is exactly what happened to other sci-fi series programs on the other 3 networks. "Invaders" on ABC was one and "V" on NBC were just two of a dozen that went away before they were developed fully. Had both stars of the X-files not desired to stop working I'm certain series creator Chris Carter could have continued developing more episodes for many more seasons on Fox.